The Operationalization Gap. It’s the chasm between innovation and everyday practice that is a challenge for all large organizations. Hospital executives will likely not be surprised to learn that the ...

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is awarding $5.4 million in first-year funding to establish a new program that supports the integration of genomics into learning health systems. Present in ...

Healthcare leaders can learn four important lessons from a recent study indicating universal colonization as superior to other strategies for reducing methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus among ...

This article presents a case study of how stakeholders in one state came together to integrate practice and research that is a step beyond a learning health care system. Objectives: The cost and ...

• Changing the way patients are thought about, as consumers of research rather than just as study subjects, is a core principle for engaging patients in research. • Better information and decision ...

Advances in trauma care have accelerated over the past decade, spurred by the significant burden of injury from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Between 2005 and 2013, the case fatality rate for ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A quiet paradox is unfolding in health care. Around the world, governments are centralizing health systems—consolidating ...

Academic health sciences libraries play a pivotal role in advancing clinical and translational science, offering services that span the entire research lifecycle. As essential partners in the success ...

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront featured topic, Accountable Care for Population Health, featuring analysis and discussion of how to understand, design, support, and measure ...